Ricardo Lockette

One of the constants of Bill Belichick's seven Super Bowl teams with the Patriots has been his ability to find the diamond in the rough, players who were either undervalued after college or tossed around by NFL free agency, but then develop into players who played major roles on championship teams.

He seemingly always gets the most out of players other coaches sometimes cannot.

"A lot of people talk about the 'Patriot Way,'" linebacker Dont'a Hightower said at the Super Bowl. "There's no straight definition of it, but here you know that we're going to work every day. Around here, you're either getting better or you're getting worse. That's kind of the...

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